One of the posts I'm most proud of is my Top 10 Songs for Classic Rock artists (read
here). I decided to make a list for more modern artists. This is a huge category and most of my library is from this era, so for the purposes of this post the band has to have been popular at some point in the 2000s and I had to own more than two albums by the artist.
No list is perfect and it is extremely hard for me to rank favorites. I know not everyone will agree and will have different opinions. That's fine. These are my top 10 favorite original tunes by a few rock artists of the new millenium. I'll continue to add to this on occasion.
Listed alphabetically by artist first name:
AGAINST ME!
I Was A Teenage Anarchist
White Crosses
High Pressure Low
Because of the Shame
Piss and Vinegar
Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Dead Friend
Thrash Unreal
The Ocean
New Wave
ALIEN ANT FARM
Smooth Criminal (This one's a MJ cover, but it's their most popular song and they made it their own)
Movies
Stranded
Courage
S.S. Recognize
Summer
Sticks and Stones
Our Time
Homage
Rubber Mallet
ALTER BRIDGE
Show Me A Leader
My Champion
Metalingus
Rise Today
Cry of Achilles
Isolation
You Will Be Remembered
Ties That Bind
Open Your Eyes
Ghost of Days Gone By
BLUE OCTOBER
Hate Me
Say It
Should Be Loved
The End
You Make Me Smile
She's My Ride
Into the Ocean
Congratulations
Drilled A Wire Through My Cheek
The Chills
BOY HITS CAR
Rebirth
As I Watch the Sun Fuck the Ocean
Love Core (Welcome To)
Lovefurypassionenergy
I'm A Cloud
Stealing Fire From the Sun
Embrace
A Letter From Prison
A Madness Called Love
Dreams
BUCKCHERRY
Lit Up
Next To You
Broken Glass
Crazy Bitch
Everything
Ridin'
Say Fuck It
Gluttony
Get Back
Lawless and Lulu
CHEVELLE
Send the Pain Below
The Clincher
An Island
Jawbreaker
Face to the Floor
The Red
Forfeit
Comfortable Liar
Family System
Antisaint
COAL CHAMBER
Loco
Bradley
Fiend
Big Truck
Sway
I.O.U. Nothing
Dark Days
Friend
Pig
Rowboat
CROSSFADE
Cold
Colors
So Far Away
Dead Memories
Invincible
Dead Skin
Starless
No Giving Up
Lay Me Down
Drag You Out
DANKO JONES
I Don't Care
I Believed In God
You Wear Me Down
You Are My Woman
Do You Wanna Rock
Piranha
Always Away
She Ain't Comin' Home
Type of Girl
Don't Do This
DARKNESS
I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Get Your Hands Off of My Woman
Black Shuck
Growing On Me
Southern Trains
Japanese Prisoner Of Love
Mudslide
Buccaneers in Hispaniola
Stuck In a Rut
Rock In Space
DEFTONES
Bored
Engine No. 9
Root
7 Words
My Own Summer (Shove It)
Back To School (Mini Maggit)
Minerva
Hexagram
Change (In the House of Flies)
Doomed User
DEVILDRIVER
I Could Care Less
Cry For Me Sky (Eulogy of the Scorned)
Daybreak
Swinging the Dead
Clouds Over California
Bound By the Moon
I've Been Sober
Dead to Rights
Nothing's Wrong
Digging Up the Corpses
DISTURBED
Down With the Sickness
Voices
Stupify
Ten Thousand Fists
Prayer
The Game
Liberate
Inside the Fire
Immortalized
Indestructible
DOPE
Nothing For Me Here
I'm Back
No Regrets
Die MF Die
Bitch
Drug Music
Survive
Addiction
No Way Out
6-6-Sick
EXIES
Slow Drain
Lay Your Money Down
Fear of Being Alone
Different Than You
These Are the Days
Tired Of You
What You Deserve
Can't Relate
Ugly
Dear Enemy
FINGER ELEVEN
Bones & Joints
Drag You Down
Paralyzer
One Thing
First Time
Complicated Questions
Good Times
Sick of It All
Other Light
Five Crooked Lines
GEMINI SYNDROME
Remember We Die
Anonymous
Pleasure and Pain
Stardust
Mourning Star
Sorry Not Sorry
Basement
On Point
Alive Inside
Babylon
GODSMACK
Awake
Keep Away
I Stand Alone
Whatever
Voodoo
Straight Out of Line
Saints and Sinners
What If?
Speak
1000HP
GOOD CHARLOTTE
Little Things
Waldorfworldwide
The Anthem
I Heard You
East Coast Anthem
Wondering
The River
Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
Girls & Boys
Secrets
GOLDFINGER
San Simeon
Mable
I'm Down
Pick a Fight
Superman
Counting the Days
Disorder
Here In Your Bedroom
Going Home
Another 20 Cent Goodbye
(Hed)PE
Killing Time
Bartender
Blackout
Represent
Walk On By
Waiting To Die
Renegade
Suck It Up
Raise Hell
Truth Rising
ill Niño
God Save Us
Te Amo...I Hate You
La Epidemia
Rip Out Your Eyes
I Am Loco
Rumba
Compulsion of Virus and Fever
Killing You, Killing Me
Kellogg's, Bombs & Cracker Jacks
Nothing's Clear
KoRn
Blind
Right Now
Y'all Wanna Single
Freak On A Leash
Falling Away From Me
Got the Life
Did My Time
Shoots & Ladders
Make Me Bad
A.D.I.D.A.S
KYNG
Closer to the End
Pristine Warning
Pushing and Pulling
I Don't Believe
Breathe in the Water
The Battle of the Saint/Lines
Lost One
Burn the Serum
Electric Halo
Sunday Smile
LINKIN PARK
One Step Closer
Crawling
In the End
A Place for My Head
Papercut
Numb
Faint
Shadow of the Day
Breaking the Habit
Pushing Me Away
MARILYN MANSON
Beautiful People
Deep Six
This is the New Shit
Disposable Teens
Personal Jesus
Fight Song
Dope Show
The Love Song
mOBSCENE
Rock 'N Roll N****r
MURDERDOLLS
Dawn of the Dead
My Dark Place Alone
197666
Twist My Sister
Slit My Wrists
Die My Bride
The Funeral Ball
Love At First Fright
She Was A Teenage Zombie
Bored 'Til Death
NONPOINT
Mindtrip
Bullet With A Name
Orgullo
Victim
What A Day
Endure
Rabia
Lights, Camera, Action
Breaking Skin
Generation Idiot
OLEANDER
I Walk Alone
You'll Find Out
Down When I'm Loaded
She's Up She's Down
Stupid
Where Were You Then
Fight
Yours If You Like
Daylight
Lost Cause
PAPA ROACH
Last Resort
Broken Home
Dead Cell
Between Angels and Insects
Scars
Lifeline
Change or Die
M-80 (Explosive Energy Movement)
...To Be Loved
She Loves Me Not
QUEENS of the STONE AGE
You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar But I Feel Like A Millionaire
First It Giveth
Little Sister
Go With the Flow
Feel Good Hit of the Summer
A Song for the Dead
Six Shooter
No One Knows
3's and 7's
The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
RAMMSTEIN
Du Hast
Deutschland
Radio
Reise, Reise
Feuer Frei!
Mein Teil
Keine Lust
Mann Gegen Mann
Los
Ich Will
RED
Shadows
Breathe Into Me
Death to Me
Faceless
Feed the Machine
Already Over
Release the Panic
Wasting Time
Pieces
Gave It All Away
RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS
Your Guardian Angel
Don't Hate
Face Down
Choke
In Fate's Hands
Waiting
Seventeen Ain't So Sweet
Atrophy
Where Are the Heroes
Casting the First Stone
RISE AGAINST
Re-Education (Through Labor)
Savior
Injection
Prayer of the Refugee
Paper Wings
Black Masks & Gasoline
Gave It All
Swing Life Away
The Dirt Whispered
The Eco-Terrorist In Me
SALIVA
Click Click Boom
Ladies and Gentleman
Always
Your Disease
Black Sheep
Raise Up
Superstar
Family Reunion
Hunt You Down
800
SEETHER
Remedy
Tonight
Sympathetic
Rise Above This
Gasoline
The Gift
Fake It
Broken
No Jesus Christ
Fuck It
SHINEDOWN
45
Devour
I Dare You
Sound of Madness
Save Me
Cry For Help
Heroes
Cyanide Sweet Tooth Suicide
Fly From the Inside
Enemies
SICK PUPPIES
Cancer
Too Many Words
All the Same
Maybe
Howard's Tale
You're Going Down
Earth To You
War
Pitiful
Stick To Your Guns
SLIPKNOT
Duality
Wait and Bleed
People = Shit
Before I Forget
Psychosocial
Left Behind
Eyeless
Devil in I
Custer
Heretic Song
STAIND
Mudshovel
Suffocate
Outside
It's Been Awhile
Now
Price to Play
Zoe Jane
Raw
So Far Away
Could It Be
STATIC-X
Push It
I'm With Stupid
This Is Not
Get to the Gone
Dirthouse
Destroy All
I Want to Fucking Break It
Wisconsin Death Trip
Set It Off
The Enemy
STONE SOUR
Through Glass
Bother
Get Inside
Tumult
Inhale
Made of Scars
Reborn
Absolute Zero
Ru486
Song #3
SYSTEM OF A DOWN
Chop Suey
Inner Vision
Toxicity
Needles
Aerials
Chick N' Stu
BYOB
Psycho
Sugar
Science
TRAPT
Headstrong
Still Frame
These Walls
Who's Going Home With You Tonight
Made of Glass
Wasteland
The Wind
Sound Off
Stories
Bring It
The USED
Buried Myself Alive
A Box of Sharp Objects
Take It Away
Taste of Ink
I'm A Fake
Maybe Memories
I Caught Fire (In Your Eyes)
Choke Me
Quixotica
Sick Hearts
VOLBEAT
Lola Montez
Heaven Nor Hell
Fallen
7 Shots
Ecotone
A Warrior's Call
Seal the Deal
The Devil's Bleeding Crown
The Hangman's Bodycount
Who They Are
YELLOWCARD
Ocean Avenue
Way Away
Rivertown Blues
Afraid
Awakening
Breathing
One Year, Six Months
Cut Me, Mick
Rough Landing, Holly
Only One
ZEBRAHEAD
Playmate of the Year
Sirens
Rescue Me
Wake Me Up
Falling Apart
Save Your Breath
I Am
In My Room
Alone
Hell Yeah!
